Bread And Circuses In Sci-Fi Films.

The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, and Ready Player One are wildly different sci-fi films which derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about "bread and circuses" powered some of the most memorable sci...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Great Courses, The, Aldrete, Greg
Weitere Verfasser:
Aldrete, Greg (SchauspielerIn)
Format:
Elektronisch Film
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses, 2020.
Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
Zusammenfassung:
The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, and Ready Player One are wildly different sci-fi films which derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about "bread and circuses" powered some of the most memorable sci-fi plots in cinema?
Umfang:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Anmerkungen:
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Format Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Schlagworte:
History, Ancient.
Motion pictures.
Education films.
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